What is Heart attack ?
Your heart needs a continues blood supply to work properly if your heart don’t get it then there are lots of chance to get heart attack. Heart attack is an dangerous condition in which some of your heart muscle don’t get proper blood flow. Without proper blood flow you heart muscle is being you to die. During heart attack if you don’t get normal blood flow quickly then may be your heart can permanently damage. Now if we are talking about lack of blood flow then there are several reasons of t but most f the common reason is blockage in your heart arteries.
What happen during heart attack?
During heart attack your blood flow is stop or not reach properly in a part or muscle in your body. Now because of this, your that heart muscle or part is die or injured and it can’t pump. If an part of your heart can’t pump then it can disrupt pumping function of your heart. And if this happen then the blood flow is stop to the rest of the body. And you can be die.
Symptoms of heart attack
- Chest pain
- Shortness of breath or trouble breathing.
- Trouble sleeping
- Nausea or stomach discomfort.
- Heart palpitations
- Anxiety or a feeling of “impending doom”
- Feeling lightheaded, dizzy or passing out
- feeling clammy and sweaty
- coughing or wheezing, if fluid builds up in the lungs
- pain that spreads to the arms, neck, jaw, or back.
Causes of heart attack
There are a lot of Causes of heart attack but today we are discussing about main causes of heart attack.
- Coronary artery disease- this disease happen when cholesterol an some fatty substance build up a wall in your coronary arteries.
- Smoking- when People smoke not only smoke comes inside your body there are black color of liquid also comes into your body which affect you heart.
- Unhealthy diet- As I told you before due to fat you arteries are blocked or the products or food which we eat today is not good for our health it gives us a lot of fat.
Complications of a heart attack
- Arrhythmias
- Heart failure
- Heart valve problems
- Stroke
- Sudden cardiac arrest
- Depression and anxiety
- Cardiogenic shock
Important tests for a heart patient or heart attack Survivor
Blood tests- The most easy ways to diagnose a heart attack is a checkup for cardiac troponin in your blood. In heart attack, the damage to heart muscle cells always causes this chemical marker to appear in your bloodstream.
Electrocardiogram- this is the first tests which you get when you come to an ER with heart attack symptoms. Your heart’s electrical signals can tell if an injury is occurring.
Echocardiogram- Using ultrasound, an echocardiogram generates a picture of inside and outside of your heart. It can show how well your heart is squeezing and how well the valves are working.
Coronary angiogram or heart catheterization- This is a procedure that uses X-rays to show the blood vessels to your heart and can help determine if there are any blockages.
Heart computed tomography (CT) scan- This creates a highly detailed scan of your heart and heart’s blood vessels to show if there’s any significant narrowing or hardening of the major coronary arteries.
Heart MRI- This test uses a powerful magnetic field and computer processing to create an image of your heart. It can show problems of blood flow in the arteries to your heart.
Exercise stress test- This test can use an ECG, echocardiogram or nuclear scans while you’re physically active to help show if your heart is receiving enough blood flow.
Nuclear heart scans- These scans use a radioactive dye a provider injects into your blood and computer-enhanced methods like computed tomography ( CT Scan ) to find areas of your heart that aren’t receiving as much blood or are injured. These scans can be single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) scans or positron emission tomography (PET) scans.